This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135β1154), with its βnineteen long wintersβ of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths an
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<P>This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135β1154), with its βnineteen long wintersβ of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths
This compelling new biography provides the most authoritative picture yet of King Stephen, whose reign (1135-1154), with its "nineteen long winters" of civil war, made his name synonymous with failed leadership. After years of work on the sources, Edmund King shows with rare clarity the strengths an
<p>This well-known text, the standard account of the subject, is essential reading for students and scholars of the Norman period from undergraduate level upwards, and was hailed on first publication as: " a landmark in twelfth-century studies." Written in the form of a biography this completely rev